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...Tunisian defendants planned to attack civilians, Forleo ruled that their actions hadn't "exceeded guerrilla activity" - even though she conceded that the men had signed up militants to go to Iraq. They were convicted of immigration offenses. The terror judgment sparked "rage and disbelief" from Italian Foreign Minister Gianfranco Fini, who termed the verdict "a shameless distortion of reality before the eyes of the entire world." Prosecutors plan to appeal the decision. Since existing rules don't always allow officials to prevent local radicals from getting to Iraq - or causing mayhem in Europe - the British government wants to change...
...front-page cartoon in Corriere Della Sera, Italy's leading daily, said it all. A scrum of center-left opposition figures - communists, reformers, party chairmen, union bosses - hoisted a man named Gianfranco Fini on their shoulders and shouted: finalmente un leader! Finally - but Fini is no center-left leader. He's head of the right-wing, "post-fascist" National Alliance Party, and Deputy Prime Minister in Silvio Berlusconi's governing coalition. The opposition can't stand Berlusconi, but they were feting his right-hand man because Fini had suggested that immigrants "who live, work and pay taxes in Italy" should...
...issue that most concerned Italy's E.U. partners, however, was the possibility that far-right elements might find their way into the new government. Gianfranco Fini, whose post-fascist National Alliance took 12% of the vote, was immediately promised a deputy prime minister's post. But Fini is now a moderate conservative who has severed ties with the party's pro-Mussolini roots. The neighbors' real worry during the campaign was Umberto Bossi, acid-tongued leader of the anti-immigrant Northern League, who has called the E.U. the "Soviet Union of the West" and once branded Brussels bureaucrats "Nazi pedophiles...
...spirited couple in their day. Mira Sorvino, whose former boyfriend Quentin Tarantino was recently embroiled in a wee bar punch-up, had her own little confrontation at Cannes. For some reason Sorvino decided to attend a press event for a Johnny Depp-Roman Polanski movie. After it was fini, Sorvino was introduced to movie critic Jami Bernard, who wrote a biography of Tarantino. The Oscar winner angrily demanded to know why Bernard subsequently interviewed Tony Tarantino, her old flame's biological but very estranged father, for Premiere. "It was a cruel and immoral thing to do," she told the critic...
...race. Two were rescued by the Australian navy; one is still missing. "Finding your way through a field of icebergs," Auguin told Paris Match, "is like Russian roulette." While Auguin said he got used to the icebergs, 25-ft. waves and the solitude, his solo Magellan phase is fini. "Once was enough...